Question follow-through · 20408
Dental Services: Surrey
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to emergency dentistry in Surrey.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to emergency dentistry in Surrey.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Dental Statistics - England 2023/24, published by the NHS Business Services Authority on 22 August 2024, is available from the following link:https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324In 2023/24, ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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